PSA: Apply to become a member of the National Advisory Council on Poverty
The Feds are looking for people with lived experience of poverty to join an advisory council to help implement their national poverty reduction strategy. Also, they pay…
Poverty
Kendall Worth: Open letter to Santa
Kendall Worth asks Santa to have a chat with Minister Kelly Regan about his wish list on behalf of all of Nova Scotia’s people on income assistance.
PSA: You are invited to the Halifax Homeless Memorial Service – December 21st
PSA: Please join us in remembering and honouring those who have lost their lives while experiencing homelessness and poverty.
Open letter to Minister Kelly Regan: The stakes are high and the department of Community Service must do better
After supporting income assistance clients as a Senior Law Student at the Dalhousie Legal Aid Clinic, Katie Brady felt compelled to write an open letter to minister Kelly Regan of Community Services. In the letter Katie identifies three areas where the department could and should do better: too much paperwork; a lack of compassion; and policies that are changed without warning, let alone input from advocates and clients. Read this letter carefully, the examples are mind boggling, and the stakes are high.
Kendall Worth: Home for Christmas
Kendall meets up with a young woman, at one time on income assistance, who continues to turn her life around. A touching story with a definite Christmas flavour.
Welfare recipients keep getting poorer in Canada’s most miserly province
A recently published report shows that incomes for people on welfare in Nova Scotia are terribly insufficient, and on a downward trajectory. They are also by and large the lowest in Canada.
Kendall Worth: How income assistance recipients stumble through the month of December
Kendall on the challenges of Christmas parties. “They tell me that they wish they could just sleep the month of December away. It’s not because they don’t like Christmas, it’s because of all the things like this, that become complicated just because you are poor.”
Tim Blades at the Lower Sackville My Week on Welfare screening: I want to be part of a solution
Poverty activist and welfare recipient Tim Blades speaks at the recent screening of My Week on Welfare in Lower Sackville. His message is not the one that Community Services would like you to hear, but it’s rooted in lived experience.
News release: ACORN to highlight Eastlink’s lonely refusal to participate in low-income program
This Saturday at 12 noon ACORN members and allies will launch a mock food drive to support EastLink’s Bragg family, who last month claimed to be too small a company to provide low-cost internet to low-income Nova Scotians. The patriarch of the Bragg family, John Bragg, has reported wealth of 1.3 Billion dollars.
Landlords flout the law while government looks the other way
Nova Scotia landlords openly flout the law and families with children suffer the consequences. And nobody within the provincial bureaucracy seems to give a damn.